The 3 most overpaid Toronto Raptors heading into next season

No. 1: Immanuel Quickley

The Toronto Raptors went into restricted free agency with Immanuel Quickley this offseason with a lot of leverage. The list of teams with the requisite cap space to sign Quickley to a major offer sheet was very short, and perhaps only Utah would have been willing to wait to see if Toronto would match. The Raptors should have been able to work out a favorable compromise that balanced Quickley's upside with his production thus far.

Instead, the Raptors handed Quickley a player-friendly, lucrative new five-year contract, which will pay him $32.5 million each season and potentially up to $35 million if he hits on unlikely incentives written into his contract. In total, it's a $162.5 million deal that could be as much as $175 million.

The deal makes Quickley the 16th-highest paid point guard in the league, ahead of players such as Jamal Murray, Jalen Brunson and Dejounte Murray and just behind De'Aaron Fox and Jrue Holiday (to be fair Ben Simmons is also one of the players ahead of him). He is being paid at the level of All-Stars and NBA champions, and he hasn't yet reached that level. He may never get there.

Once landing in Toronto last season he averaged 18.6 points and 6.8 assists, solid numbers but not star-level production. The contract handed to him is projecting that he will continue to grow and develop and become worth such a deal. He hopefully will do just that. But looking at this season specifically, Quickley is being overpaid for the level he had played at thus far in his career.

By the end of the season it's unlikely that Chris Boucher or Bruce Brown will have played themselves off of this list, but Immanuel Quickley certainly could do just that. If he does take a major step forward, this deal becomes very reasonable in the short-term and a bargain in the long-term. Was it an overpay? Probably so, but with plenty of opportunity for it to be well worth it.

Right now, however, Quickley is one of the overpaid players on the Toronto Raptors' roster.